Short biography

Helwig Hauser graduated from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1995 and received the degree of a ''Dr.techn.'' (~PhD) from the same university in 1998.  He worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Graphics [1] at the same university from 1994 until 2000.  Afterwards, Helwig Hauser joined the newly founded VRVis Research Center [2] in Vienna, Austria, as a key researcher in the field of visualization.  In 2003, he became the scientific director of VRVis. 

    In 2004, Helwig Hauser was entitled a ''Privatdozent'' at the Vienna University of Technology (according to his successful Habilitation, entitled ''Generalizing Focus+Context Visualization'', see also further down).  In 2006, he was awarded with the prestigous Heinz Zemanek Award [3] for this work. 

    Since 2007, Helwig Hauser is professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he is working in a newly established research group on visualization [4]. 

    His interests are diverse in visualization and computer graphics, including interactive visual analysis, illustrative visualization, and the combination of scientific and information visualization, as well as many other related topics.  Helwig Hauser is also particularly interested in the application of visualization to the fields of medicine, geoscience/geology, engineering, meteorology, biology, and others).

Related links (theses):

  Habilitation thesis of Helwig Hauser, entitled ''Generalizing Focus+Context Visualization'' (PDF, 152 pages, dated Dec., 2003), together with the related supplement (PDF, 100 pages, dated Dec., 2003, also)

  Dissertation thesis of Helwig Löffelmann, entitled ''Visualizing Local Properties and Characteristic Structures of Dynamical Systems'' (PDF, 130 pages, dated Nov., 1998 - note that H. Hauser was named H. Löffelmann before his marriage in 1999)

Related links (cited from the text):

[4] Home page of the visualization group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway

[3] Home page of the Heinz Zemanek Award (in German)

[2] Home page of the VRVis Research Center in Vienna, Austria

[1] Home page of the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria

Lecturing

Computer Graphics (INF251)

course about computer graphics which is designed for the end of the UiB Bachelor study program in computer science and which acts as a preliminary for the UiB Master study program on visualization.

Visualization (INF252)

course about visualization which is central to the UiB Master study program on visualization.

Project in Visualization (INF219)

programming project in visualization, embedded within the UiB Master study program on visualization.

Selected publications (publication list)

Curve-Centric Volume Reformation for Comparative Visualization by O. Daae Lampe, C. Correa, Kw.-L. Ma, and H. Hauser. IEEE Trans. Vis. & Computer Graphics 15(6):1235-1242, 2009

Knowledge-Assisted Visualization of Seismic Data by D. Patel, Ø. Sture, H. Hauser, Chr. Giertsen, and E. Gröller. Computers & Graphics 33(5):585-596, 2009

Visualization of Multi-Variate Scientific Data by R. Fuchs and H. Hauser. Computer Graphics Forum 28(6):1670-1690, 2009

Interactive Visual Analysis of Complex Scientific Data as Families of Data Surfaces by Kr. Matkovic, D. Gracanin, B. Klarin, H. Hauser. IEEE Trans. Vis. & Computer Graphics 15(6):1351-1358, 2009

Hypothesis Generation in Climate Research with Interactive Visual Data Exploration by J. Kehrer, Fl. Ladstädter, Ph. Muigg, H. Doleisch, A. Steiner, H. Hauser. IEEE Trans. Vis. & Computer Graphics 14(6):1579-1586, 2008

Interactive Visual Steering - Rapid Visual Prototyping of a Common Rail Injection System by Kr. Matkovic, D. Gracanin, M. Jelovic, H. Hauser. IEEE Trans. on Vis. and Computer Graphics 14(6):1699-1706, 2008

Interactive Visual Analysis of Set-Typed Data by W. Freiler, Kr. Matkovic, H. Hauser. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14(6):1340-1347, 2008

A Four-level Focus+Context Approach to Interactive Visual Analysis of Temporal Features in Large Scientific Data by Ph. Muigg, J. Kehrer, St. Oeltze, H. Piringer, H. Doleisch, B. Preim, H. Hauser. Computer Graphics Forum 27(3):775-782, 2008

Parallel Vectors Criteria for Unsteady Flow Vortices by R. Fuchs, R. Peikert, H. Hauser, F. Sadlo, Ph. Muigg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14(3):615-626, 2008

Two-Level Approach to Efficient Visualization of Protein Dynamics by O. Daae Lampe, I. Viola, N. Reuter, H. Hauser. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6):1616-1623, 2007

Interactive Visual Analysis of Perfusion Data by St. Oeltze, H. Doleisch, H. Hauser, Ph. Muigg, and B. Preim. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6):1392-1399, 2007

Scalable Hybrid Unstructured and Structured Grid Raycasting by Ph. Muigg, M. Hadwiger, H. Doleisch, and H. Hauser. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6):1592-1599, 2007

Visualization of Multi-variate Scientific Data by R. Bürger and H. Hauser. Eurographics 2007 State-of-the-Art Proceedings, pp. 117-134, 2007

Integrating Local Feature Detectors in the Interactive Visual Analysis of Flow Simulation Data by R. Bürger, Ph. Muigg, M. Ilcík, H. Doleisch, and H. Hauser. EuroVis 2007 Proc., pp. 171-178, 2007

Story Telling for Presentation in Volume Visualization by M. Wohlfart and H. Hauser. EuroVis 2007 Proc., pp. 91-98, 2007